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Wonder how this worked out

Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2013 9:29 pm

by Niner

Seems those old nautical terms, Port and Starboard, were modernized a hundred years ago by the US Navy. Or....was it?

Washington Times April 15, 1913.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/ ... d-1/seq-1/

Re: Wonder how this worked out

Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:15 am

by Niner Delta

Guess that didn't last very long................

So why didn't he want to change bow and stern to front and back??

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Re: Wonder how this worked out

Posted: Tue Apr 16, 2013 8:51 am

by Niner

Well.....maybe that was next on the list.